Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway offers a 5-mile-long railway line that serves mills and villages in the Worth Valley and is now a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England. It runs from Keighley to Oxenhope and connects to the national rail network at Keighley railway station. The railway boasts a stunning range of well preserved locations, offering period scenes covering 100 years from 1860 – 1960. The Railway has become synonymous with the 1970’s film ‘The Railway Children’, more recently hosting a range of productions made with investment from Screen Yorkshire, such as Peaky Blinders, Testament of Youth, Brideshead Revisited, Swallows and Amazons and The Great Train Robbery as well as the BBC’s recent Agatha Christie adaptation The ABC Murders.

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Chris Hordley, Production Liaison & Development

Chris provides bespoke advice on regional locations, studios and facilities to UK and international production companies. With over 20 years combined industry and production liaison experience, Chris has secured and supported productions in Yorkshire & Humber including; Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley, Victoria, Ackley Bridge, God's Own Country, Paddington 2, and Transformers: The Last Knight. He also supports Screen Yorkshire’s senior management team in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.

Richard Knight, Production Liaison and Education

Richard assists with the day to day running of the Film Office and also manages Screen Yorkshire’s training and education programmes. Richard has worked for fifteen years as a location manager, predominantly in Yorkshire on films including Four Lions and This is England, and TV Dramas such as Utopia and Prisoners Wives. As such, he has an excellent knowledge of Yorkshire’s diverse range of locations and the logistics of filming in them.